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well, it seems to have been (yet another) drive-by posting - so who's complaining?
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oh, just when we thought it solved.
So we could change it to 'dark shadows'> there used to be a soap opera of that name.
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After all this I hardly dare ask if you have one word for 'long clouds' for me.
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Well--Aotearoa means "Land of the Long White Cloud" (New Zealand), which, acc'g. to Wikipedia could be shortened to aoroa--if that's an actual Maaori word I mean! ao = cloud, tea = white and roa = long Hey--you didn't specify English!  
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I should have thought of that 
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! ao = cloud, tea = white and roa = long Hey--you didn't specify English! I've been searching all sorts of exotic languages for the long shadow too. So I did not mean per se English. Old and Indian languages often have these one word sentences. Perfectly allright. Mrs. Longshadow ( what's the cup of tea has to do with it?  )
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Old and Indian languages often have these one word sentences.By Indian, you don't mean South Asian, I assume, but the native languages of North and South Americas? This is one of the problems with the X number of "words" for snow in Eskimo meme. You can see two examples in the article on polysynthetic languages ( link) on Wikipedia.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I've been searching all sorts of exotic languages for the long shadow too..... So.... I am not the only one that spends hours surfing the net looking up little snippets of information. Not that I have done that much this week. But its what I do do 
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I've been searching all sorts of exotic languages for the long shadow too..... So.... I am not the only one that spends hours surfing the net looking up little snippets of information. Not that I have done that much this week. But its what I do do Count me in on that activity as well
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Yes, that's what I meant, the native languages of North and South Americas and the Arctic languages. But I gave up when I did not find the long shadow there.
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